This
animation is a fan art for the brilliant author of Latex
Blue, a quite endearingly kinky anthropomorphic comic based on elements
from the Psychopathia Sexualis. The above is the Furry Self
of Dragonfly, as rendered, and animated, by me. Animation makes
things live in a very unique and special way, and I figured that an animation
of Dragonfly's Fur Self would be an exceptional thing to get to see.

The
images were first drawn in DPaint Animator, an adjunct to the Dpaint2
paint program I use. After the animation frames were drawn by hand
with a mouse and then painted and cropped down to size, they were
transferred into Paint Shop Pro to be converted into .gif format. The
images were then loaded into Microsoft Gif Animator and made into a
working animation. After this step, the resultant animated gif was
transferred into Paint Shop Pro Animation Studio to be run through an
optimization tool. The finished animation was then saved off.

Of
special note in this animation is the use of shading to simulate the
breeze affecting the fur, and the air effects upon the hair. It was a
very interesting project, in that I set myself the task of not only
duplicating another artists style, but also then bringing that style
to life with animation. Overall, I think I succeeded, and I can
but hope good Dragonfly might also agree!